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From: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] simple framebuffer driver with RPi support
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:56:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131025075651.GA86782@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1382646226-24871-1-git-send-email-a.heider@gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:23:40PM +0200, Andre Heider wrote:
> This set adds a common simple framebuffer driver for platforms which choose
> to support it. RPi support is part of this set.
> 
> The driver serves two functions:
> * a framebuffer driver for barebox
> * pass an active framebuffer configuration to a loaded kernel

Pondering over this again, this is probably the wrong approach. There's
no need for a distinct simplefb driver for barebox, bcm2835 can have its own
fb driver like everyone else, and the simplefb configuration for the
kernel can be done independent of the fb barebox driver in use...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-25  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-24 20:23 Andre Heider
2013-10-24 20:23 ` [PATCH 1/6] fb: add a stride value to struct fb_info Andre Heider
2013-10-25 10:58   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-10-25 11:51     ` Andre Heider
2013-10-25 23:04     ` Sascha Hauer
2013-10-24 20:23 ` [PATCH 2/6] gui: convert graphic utils to respect the stride value Andre Heider
2013-10-24 20:23 ` [PATCH 3/6] gui: convert the bmp renderer " Andre Heider
2013-10-24 20:23 ` [PATCH 4/6] video: add a simple framebuffer driver Andre Heider
2013-10-24 20:23 ` [PATCH 5/6] ARM: bcm2835: add missing mbox overscan response field Andre Heider
2013-10-24 20:23 ` [PATCH 6/6] ARM: rpi: add support for simplefb Andre Heider
2013-10-25  7:56 ` Andre Heider [this message]
2013-10-25 23:51   ` [PATCH 0/6] simple framebuffer driver with RPi support Sascha Hauer

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